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NO 08 SEPTEMBER 2008     BEAUTY PAGEANT

Jean Paul Gaultier
It was an incredible sample of creation that moved about in the scene, a crazy quilt of models and common mortals: there were slender gum-chewing supergirls, Valkyries, androgynous types, sex bombs and sultry boys.
The whole menagerie decked out in Gaultier’s equally eclectic signature mix of fine fabrics, natural rubber, sex, leather, tulle, rugged shoes, stretch material, top-notch tailoring and casual presentation.
Text &Photos Brigitte R. Winkler

Miss America
O’Hara is clearly a proponent of unique individuality, but not in the sense of being elevated above the rest. She seems like someone who would attribute the same potential for idiosyncrasy to everyone else, she just happens
to take the liberty of living hers.
Text Oliver Tepel

Marisa Berenson
Marisa Berenson says that all the girls  dreamed of being actresses or models. So did she, even
though she was shy and didn’t find herself attractive or talented. Most photo-models in those days were anonymous.
A very few, Veruschka and Twiggy among them, used their first names only, like a label on exclusive goods.
Interview Catrin Lorch
Photos Markus Jans

Peter Berlin
Most people have no imagination. And I think that’s also why I was successful as Peter Berlin – because I knew exactly what I wanted. When I saw someone on the street, I first brandished my plumage, so to speak; you
know the way I dressed, no one could overlook me. And the aura I put out wasn’t one that said: “Let’s go to the movies”. No, the message was: sex, sex, sex!
Interview Claus Richter

Jean Paul Lespagnard
First I found this fabric a year ago. It feels just like the paper the French fries are wrapped in when you buy them here in Belgium. The wrapping becomes slightly transparent when the mayonnaise soaks in. The color of the fabric is a bit dirty too, so I thought a collection about French fries could be nice.
Interview produzentin
Photos Laetitia Bica

„Bing Bang Boum Vlan Paf Hiiiiiiii!“
“I simply wanted to express cheerfulness”,  “nothing else.” Her second goal was to show proof that beauty can be found anywhere.
Text Theresa Schwab
Photos Ronald Stoops

Yves Saint Laurent
Photos Anuschka Blommers & Niels Schumm

Stefano Pilati
Pilati has rehabilitated a code of elegance that seemed almost too classic. His modernizing impulses are plumbed from the depths of the Yves Saint Laurent archives and, as opposed to Galliano, he prefers purism to flamboyance. But Pilati is neither a traditionalist nor nostalgic; quite the contrary.
Text Christina Tschech

Agathe & Riond
Photos Vincent & Gilles Turin

The Judgment of Paris
Second place. I’m beautiful, but not beauti-
ful enough. Fading out just before the finish
line is the worst. Yeah, the butt slut won. Next
time it’ll be my turn; the next time belongs to
me. I’ll enter the Big Boobs Contest, the rear
ends can be as fine as you please then.
Text Katharina Koppenwallner
 

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